Bringing a Lawsuit Against a Law You Haven't Read

"Arizona has enacted a new law cracking down on illegal immigrants in response to a dramatic rise in violence along the Arizona-Mexico border. The new law authorizes law enforcement officers to arrest anyone reasonably suspected of being an illegal immigrant. Under the new law, state and local law enforcement officers are authorized to determine during lawful stops the immigration status of people for whom there is "reasonable suspicion" that they are in the country illegally. Reasonable suspicion is a legal standard requiring that before someone is arrested or detained there must be reasonable belief that the person has been, is or is about to be engaged in criminal activity."

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On Sunday, May 9 on NBC's "Meet the Press", Attorney General Eric Holder called for a federal lawsuit against Arizona's recently passed illegal immigration law (a law which is supported by 60% of Arizona voters). Then, on Thursday, May 13, Holder "told...the House Judiciary Committee the following about his knowledge of Arizona's recently passed immigration law-enforcement measure:

'...I've glanced at it. I have not read it.'

'...I have not been briefed yet.'

'... I've only made, made the comments that I've made on the basis of things that I've been able to glean by reading newspaper accounts, obviously, looking at television, talking to people who are on the review panel, on the review team that are looking at the law.'"

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I'm going to bed. Wake me up when it's over. We have way too many morons in high places. 

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"Holder Profiles Arizona -- Isn't that really what the Attorney General is doing?

He hasn't read the Arizona immigration law, even though reading the law is the basic duty of any lawyer (let alone the U.S. Attorney General) who is called on to assess a legal situation.

Thus, he hasn't got reasonable suspicion that Arizonans are violating the Constitution, even though reasonable suspicion is the basic investigative standard we expect law-enforcement to satisfy before officials harass Americans with stepped up scrutiny.

And we know he has a bias because he told us, unabashedly, that he thinks Americans are "cowards" on matters of race.

Think about it this way: If a police officer, without taking elementary investigative steps to inform himself about the facts of a situation, and thus without reasonable suspicion, simply assumed a person must be guilty of wrongdoing based on the police officer's avowed prejudice, what would Eric Holder call it?"

Andy McCarthy @ nationalreview.com

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Watch this video of the Attorney General admitting that he hasn't read Arizona's law (first 1:30)

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Persevero,